The capital's social adaptation program for disabled children turned out to be too formal Moscow officials who asked for about 3 billion rubles. from the city treasury for the social adaptation of disabled children, they could not convince Mayor Yuri Luzhkov that they would be able to spend this money correctly.

CLUBS Umka and "Armored Car". "B2" , 21.00. DJ Osadchy in Duma , 21.00. Dog Korolenko in the “OGI Project” , 22.00. CONCERTS “World stars are laureates of the Competition named after. Tchaikovsky." National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia and soloist Barry Douglas (piano, UK). The program includes Brahms's first concerto. Great Hall of the Conservatory , 19.00. Dmitry Hvorostovsky (baritone) and Sumi Yo (soprano, South Korea). Kremlin Palace , 19.00. "Instrumental Assemblies".

Voice of Beslan activists left idle The Office of the Federal Bailiff Service (UFSSP) for the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania yesterday came out with an explanation of the scandalous story associated with three activists of the all-Russian public organization “Voice of Beslan”, who claimed that law enforcement agencies suspected them of beating the judge of the Pravoberezhny district of Beslan and seven bailiffs .

Michael Lee saved the Berlin Film Festival from boredom The competition of the 58th Berlinale has reached the halfway point, causing, as usual, melancholy and bewilderment. Almost a dozen works full of unbreakable cultural complacency, “serious” cinema, not needed by either the audience or the press, but satisfying the ambition of festival organizers.

Russia will try to catch up in trade with India with trade with China The second Russian-Indian forum on trade and investment was scheduled to take place in Moscow, but the organizers of the event decided to gather participants in Delhi again, as last year. The reason for this was the Year of Russia opening in India. The most discussed issue at the forum was doubling trade turnover, and unlike doubling GDP, this task will have to be solved not in a decade, but in just two years.

Dynamo-TTG took a step towards the Final Four of the Champions League The first stage of the playoffs of the European Club Champions League - the “Round of Twelve” - has started. Yesterday, in the men's and women's tournaments, the hosts of the site were teams from one Russian sports society. Volleyball players "Dynamo-TTG" in Kazan defeated the Polish "Jastrzembski" - 3:0 (25:17, 25:20, 25:18).

A restructuring of atmospheric processes is planned on the European territory of Russia. In the rear of a powerful cyclone that moves from the Barents Sea to the north of Siberia, air from the Arctic will begin to flow with north-westerly flows to the north, northwest and center of Russia, establishing the winter weather pattern. In the northwestern region, with the approach of an atmospheric front, already on the night of February 13, there will be light snow in places, 0...-5°C.

The former head of Roskompechat was found guilty and unpunished The Central District Court of Novosibirsk yesterday handed down a verdict in the scandalous criminal case of the former head of Roskompechat Boris Mironov , who was accused of inciting ethnic hatred. The former head of the National Power Party, the author of numerous anti-Semitic books and articles, was found guilty, but will not serve his sentence.

Oil workers ask to significantly increase the validity of export schedules Russian oil companies turned to the Ministry of Industry and Energy with a request to draw up export schedules not quarterly, as now, but at least annually. The head of the oil and gas complex department of the ministry, Vladimir Kuznetsov, told Interfax yesterday.

Watch from February 14 on Moscow screens “The Vanished Empire” (Russia, 2008, Karen Shakhnazarov). A nostalgic drama about a love triangle, which develops in the late 70s of the last century - a time when no one could have imagined that the Soviet Union would simply not exist in ten years. Healthy conservatism and attention to detail. Starring Alexander Lyapin, Lydia Milyuzina, Yegor Baranovsky, Ivan Kupreenko, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan and Vladimir Ilyin. “99 francs” (France, 2007, Jan Kunen).

500 thousand plans arrested "United Russia" failed to prove its rights to the brand "Putin's Plan" - the Yekaterinburg city election commission did not recognize this phrase as the intellectual property of the party.

Americans fired at pirates who captured Russian sailors A US warship fired on a vessel of Somali pirates holding the tugboat Switzer Korsakov with Russian sailors. The director of the program for assistance to East African sea carriers, Kenyan Andrew Mvangura, confirmed yesterday the fact of shelling on the evening of February 11 of filibusters delivering food to accomplices. The tug is located 40 km east of the Somali coast and 900 km north of Mogadishu. Mr.

The Alexander Rudin Orchestra performed “crowned” music In the beautiful philharmonic subscription “Great Cantatas and Oratorios,” the Musica Viva orchestra of Alexander Rudin, the choir of the same name specially created for this project, and four foreign soloists performed a gracefully structured program of “royal” (dedicated to crowned heads or historically associated with them) music by Joseph Haydn.

The Russian Prime Minister opened the Year of Russia in India For the first time in the last four years, the head of the Russian government gave an interview. True, it was not Russian, but foreign media that awakened “freedom of speech” in the Russian prime minister. After such a long silence from the top officials of the White House, Viktor Zubkov agreed to an interview with Indian journalists.

Chronicle of sporting events Basketball. NBA. Regular season. “Toronto” – “San Antonio” – 88:93, “Charlotte” – “Lakers” – 97:106, “Milwaukee” – “Clippers” – 89:96, “Golden State” – “Washington” – 120:117, “Philadelphia” – “Dallas” – 84:76, “Orlando” – “Cleveland” – 111:118, “Houston” – “Portland” – 95:83 . The most productive basketball player of the next game day was Stephen Jackson from Golden State. He brought his team 41 points, and this is his personal scoring record this season.